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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cmd_reset: don't trash uncommitted changes unless told
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On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 01:50:06PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I just replied to Avery about that.  -- is always the way to disambiguate
> between refs (that come before --) and paths (that come after --), not
> limited to "git checkout" but with other commands such as "git log", "git
> diff", etc.

Stupid quesiton --- where is this documented?  I don't see this
documented either in the man page for git or git-checkout.

Regards,

						- Ted